Word: careered
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lived on indeed, but he has lived a full life. In 1885 he became an Assistant Professor of English, and five years later a full professor. The next year he began his long career in University Hall when he was appointed Dean of Harvard College. In 1903 he was chosen Dean of the Faculty, and two years later was awarded the coveted Boylston Professorship. From 1903 until 1923 he was President of Radcliffe College, and for many years he was chairman of the Athletic Committee, from which post he resigned a year ago. Miss Comiscock is an able successor...
...bare facts of Mr. Jardine's career are that he, now 46, spent his boyhood on his father's ranch in Idaho punching cattle and breaking broncos. At 17, he went to Big Hole, Montana, and worked as helper on a dairy farm. Then he went to the Utah Agricultural College where he played football for four years, becoming captain of the team. Summers he spent on dairy farms and hay ranches. After graduating, he taught for a short time, then became manager of a farming company in Utah, then assistant cerealist of the U. S. Department...
Said Mr. Beck: "He has trod the beaten path of Franklin, possibly the most useful citizen that America ever had. When Franklin, in the middle of his career, had made a financial competence, he gave the rest of his life to the public service, and when he, too, was 80 years of age, and was asked to attend the Constitutional Convention, he said...
...religious beliefs, the then Colonel Castelnau was, as always, a devout Catholic, while in politics he was a sincere Royalist; but his Royalism was of a brand that placed France above everything, as his long career under the Third Republic has proved. His Catholicism and his Royalism made him many enemies and he is known throughout France as le capucin botte (the booted Capuchin...
...situation is very much changed, not only as regards public opinion, but also as regards the "captains of industry" who must be dealt with and the organization of industry itself, at this time when Congress is apparently launching on a new trust-busting career...